Resolved Particle Editor 1.6.4 Waterfall hard coded settings

[NPC99]

Editing instances of waterfall particle systems I can change spawner shape emissions offsets and emissions rotations for both the emitter and thin splashes to custom settings. However, these revert to preset/prefab original values (unlike other settings customised) after saving and reloading. This remains the case even after breaking the prefab. After customising the perfect shape, it's frustrating to have it reverted/corrupted on saving. As other settings are customisable, I assume this is a bug.

screenshot customised:

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screenshot reverted after saving and reloading:

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[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Forwarded to the QA team for further investigation. We will reach out again if we need more information. Thanks for reporting and sorry for any inconvenience!

 

[NPC99]

@MArdA TaleWorlds the official waterfall particle systems are set up with a LOD3 that lacks emitters, which culls any waterfalls at 180 metres. I understand this may be a choice for Calradia's optimisation, but consider it too heavy handed for modders. Had it been set up with LOD3 emitters with zero emissions these could have been modded.
So to avoid the hardcoded LOD3 cull I need to make my own particle system. It would be nice if the resource browser allowed a create override option for particle systems, but it doesn't. They have to be created again from scratch, setting up all the same stats.
Having created my own version, I found that if I edited an instance in the scene editor and added a local y force it worked until saved. At which point it moved the local y force to a y gravity and zeroed my z gravity! It seems that it is only possible to edit a local y force in an instance if that was also set up with an initialising value when the particle system was created.
So, while I now have something that works, I believe you should consider particle system overrides, removing culling LOD3s and adding some warnings about editing uninitialized zero values in a particle instance in the scene editor.

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[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Forwarded. Thank you!

 

[NPC99]

@Dejan @MArdA TaleWorlds with further work using particle systems I believe that you can only edit instance settings which were set up in the original prefab. To resolve this issue I had to create new waterfall particle systems which enabled those settings. As this is viable, this should be marked resolved.